Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968 - Google Books

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During the American rise to world power in the last hundred years, a new presidency has also arisen, a presidency that uses military, economic, political, and personal power that the constitutional founders of the 1780s would have thought highly improbable…